How to check empty gzip file in Python

Question

I don\'t want to use OS commands as that makes it is OS dependent.

This is available in tarfile, tarfile.is_tarfile(filename), to check if

Answer 1

import gzip

with gzip.open("pCSV.csv.gz", 'r') as f:

    f.seek(3)
    couterA = f.tell()

    f.seek(2,0)
    counterB = f.tell()

    if(couterA > counterB):
        print "NOT EMPTY"
    else:
        print "EMPTY"

This should do it without reading the file.